[Mission Rating: The Shepherd God's Prisoner]
When the concept of "self" reappeared, Fu Qian was already sitting in the Warehouse.
As he listened to the mission summary in his ear, he silently assessed this new sensation.
It really did feel a little like waking up with a hangover and a blank in his memory. He couldn't even find a notification that the mission had been completed.
But those were unimportant details. It was obvious that this hangover had been a great success.
Waking up after a good night's sleep was another victory!
``` [Your eyes deceive you because you have yet to find the true eyes.
Mortals, too, have their own opinions about that long night.
Lawrence, who first proposed this idea, not only broke open the cage that bound his thoughts above his head to prove it, but even dug out his useless eyeballs with his own hands.
Having finally freed himself, he was able to glimpse a brilliant corner of the world's true nature.
Yet the echoes of knowledge just as recklessly warped his body and even his very self.
Lawrence never regretted it. Amid endless struggles, before his own name faded away completely, he found the true eyes and shared them with all the scholars.
And the scholars did not disappoint him. They soon devised a way to house his remains, allowing him to continue yearning for and sharing knowledge in a special form throughout the long years to come.
Until one day, a forbidden corruption from beyond the stars tainted him, bringing an end to this research that had continued for hundreds of years.
The surviving scholars left, each passing on different ideals to their students.
But with the exception of the most conservative few, they all began to believe that applying knowledge was